Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could ...

AI models change their medical recommendations when people ask them questions that include colourful language, typos, odd ...

Researchers have documented orcas seemingly gifting rays, seals and fish to scientists and divers, which could suggest they ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

People with PCOS who struggle to conceive tend to have lower levels of a gut microbe that has been linked to endometrial ...

A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make taking X-rays and CT scans far ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

Over the past 150 years, the rise in Caesarean sections and changes in diet could have led to smaller pelvises among women – ...

There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US – it may have been a ...

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world awash with fictional dystopias, he set out to write the opposite ...